Gable

Anne was standing in the gable room, looking solemnly at three new dresses spread out on the bed.

One June evening, when the orchards were pink blossomed again, when the frogs were singing silverly sweet in the marshes about the head of the Lake of Shining Waters, and the air was full of the savor of clover fields and balsamic fir woods, Anne was sitting by her gable window.

Anne peeped out from her frosted gable window with delighted eyes.

Then she shut herself in the east gable room and wept all her shame and remorse and disappointment into her pillows.

Dutch barns, for instance, had gable roofs — and often a cupola for ventilation.

It was a queer sort of place—a gable-ended old house, one side palsied as it were, and leaning over sadly.

Although there were important developments in the internal organization of Cape houses during this period, their most obvious element is the gable. End-gables were common in medieval northern European and particularly Dutch buildings, but central gables set into the long side of roofs were more unusual and became the quintessential feature of the Cape Dutch style.

Qionglin Village in Kinhu with its well-preserved ancestral halls, arches, and old Fujian-style houses with interesting gables is famous for having more shrines than any other village on Kinmen.

First, striking sail, their tacklings then they loosed. And (with their gables stoop'd) their mast imposed Into the mast-room.